Streetlevel: Elly's Going Korean
Elly’s, the smalltown grocery store that’s been a fixture on the corner of Clermont and Dekalb Avenues for more than four decades, is about to get a makeover and some fresh blood. According to the personal blog of Observer scribe Doree Shafrir, the couple that has run the place for, like, forever says they’re handing…
Elly’s, the smalltown grocery store that’s been a fixture on the corner of Clermont and Dekalb Avenues for more than four decades, is about to get a makeover and some fresh blood. According to the personal blog of Observer scribe Doree Shafrir, the couple that has run the place for, like, forever says they’re handing over the reins to “some Korean people.” The store will close next week for renovations. Good news or not?
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Anyone who has been in Ft. Greene park on a sunny weekday, and especially on the weekends, can see it’s populated with the same Park Slope stereotypes everyone loves to loathe. The number of strollers and self-consciously styled young parent-types in the park is truly staggering. And then there’s the too-cool-for-school singles who sneer at the sight of these strollers. The same types are everywhere–get over it.
ya know how kids like to tease those they like or have a crush on?
that’s how i feel about park slope.
i tease it.
thus i love it deep down.
Doree, that’s funny. I know a few people who feel the same way — can’t stand brooklyn in general, but can’t help but love Ft Greene. It must be the giant phallic monument in the middle of the park — softens even the hardest of Manhattan hearts.
Either that, or they just appreciate that it’s almost as much of a jumble of cultures, classes, races etc as manhattan. Minus the tourists.
they probably never re-thought the setup when they did the renovation to make it quaint and sun-filled as it is now (at least from the outside). they used to have almost no windows whatsoever, the walls bricked over with only a little porthole here and there. truly a symbol of how much the neighborhood has changed.
Hi, 3:17!
Actually we at Gawker tended to reserve our Brooklyn ire for Park Slope. Sometimes we made fun of Williamsburg/Bushwick, too. But we always had love for Fort Greene. (I mean, come on, I live there! Heh.)
i always found it odd that they had all these great windows in the place and they just pushed shelving up against them.
This should be good. Like others have said this store could be better stocked and the space better utilized.
I agree, Ely’s had the most unreliable hours ever. And, it was a total crapshoot once you got there — sometimes they had good stuff — hello Ciao Bella gelato but mostly the shelves were stocked with bad or expired merchandise.
All I can say is the bar was set so low in terms of reliability and quality of foods — it can only get better.
Hooray!!!
so funny that all these Gawker (or former Gawker) bloggers who spent so much time trashing Brooklyn with their posts, actually live in Brooklyn. This is like the third one I know of.